NAME

Alien::Ditaa - Use the ditaa text to diagram package in perl

SYNOPSIS

    use Alien::Ditaa;
    my $ditaa = Alien::Ditaa->new;
    $ditaa->run_ditaa($input_fn, $output_dn, @args);

DESCRIPTION

Trivial wrapper to run ditaa from perl.

METHODS

run_ditaa ($input_fn, $output_fn, [@args])

Runs ditaa on the input file to produce an output png.

See the ditaa documentation for additional arguments you may want (but probably don't).

Returns the exit status of the java process (i.e. 0 for success)

last_run_output

The STDOUT of the child java process running ditaa for the last call to the run_ditaa method. This is not normally useful except as information to help debug the problem when a run fails.

SEE ALSO

http://ditaa.sourceforge.net

INCLUDED SOFTWARE

An unmodified copy of the latest varion of ditaa.jar is included in this package. The latest version and source code can be obtained from the URI above.

AUTHOR

    Tomas Doran (t0m) C< bobtfish@bobtfish.net >

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2009 state51 (http://www.state51.co.uk)

LICENSE

Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.